4 papers
Predicting and Explaining Human Semantic Search in a Cognitive Model
Filip Miscevic, Aida Nematzadeh, Suzanne Stevenson
Recent work has attempted to characterize the structure of semantic memory and the search algorithms which, together, best approximate human patterns of search revealed in a semant…
Calculating Probabilities Simplifies Word Learning
Aida Nematzadeh, Barend Beekhuizen, Shanshan Huang +1
Children can use the statistical regularities of their environment to learn word meanings, a mechanism known as cross-situational learning. We take a computational approach to inve…
The Interaction of Memory and Attention in Novel Word Generalization: A Computational Investigation
Erin Grant, Aida Nematzadeh, Suzanne Stevenson
People exhibit a tendency to generalize a novel noun to the basic-level in a hierarchical taxonomy -- a cognitively salient category such as "dog" -- with the degree of generalizat…
Simple Search Algorithms on Semantic Networks Learned from Language Use
Aida Nematzadeh, Filip Miscevic, Suzanne Stevenson
Recent empirical and modeling research has focused on the semantic fluency task because it is informative about semantic memory. An interesting interplay arises between the richnes…